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Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.
Robert Redford
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You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford
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Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
Robert Redford
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The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Robert Redford
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There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.
Robert Redford
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Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
Robert Redford
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We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.
Robert Redford
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford
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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
Robert Redford
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He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
Robert Redford
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Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
Robert Redford
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In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.
Robert Redford
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I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
Robert Redford
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Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
Robert Redford
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Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
Robert Redford
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